They can be moved to another camera or a hard drive by sliding the images across the table -- much as one would slide a picture across a regular table.

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Lowe, 30, City's 18-goal top scorer, has grown frustrated during the post-Christmas slide down the League Two table towards inevitable relegation.

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Yet for all the official talk at home about ever-improving exam results, Britain is beginning to slide down the international league table of educational attainment.

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That might sound far-fetched, yet China, once the world's technological leader, provides a sobering lesson on how economies can slide down the international league table.

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In Italy, where I can slide my mortar and pestle across a counter, brace myself, and move it to the table, the only thing that ever fell on my foot was a full bottle of Barolo, and it was three in the morning, I had been working late, and the fig tart in the oven was about to burn.

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You can scroll up and down through those icons, which is now accompanied by a cute 3D animation where the items slide over the top and bottom edge, like wrapping a piece of paper around the side of a table.

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